 | The Preservation of Henry VII |  |
The iust and lawfull title, that Richard Duke of Yorke, father to king Edward, made to the Crowne of England.
Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Yorke, rightly the garlandSought by law to regaine; his right to the Crowne then of England:
And he preferred a byll, to the nobil common asembly,
Held at Westminster. Where after merciful Henry
(Namely the sixth) his death, they all (there iointly together)
Gaue this Realme to the Duke, his right heires in the remainder.
But this stout Richards stout lucklesse mynd was vnabel,
Neare to the towne Wakefield (and left here these many children;
Edward, George, Richard: all three well knowne to be brethren)
And yet he sware many times by solemne othes, that he neuer
Would any treason atempt, or against him raise any power.
His three sonnes, whom I nam'd, were like three Martial Hectors,
All of a stoutnes alike, on anothers glory detrators.
This foresaid Richard, to the foresaid fortunat Edward,
Was father vudubitate: sonne and heire namely to Richard,
Stout Earle of Cambridge;
Who maried Dame Anne, sole heire and daughter of Edmund
Mortimer, Earle of March, Richards neece, namely the second.
So that he was, by the lawes, right lawfull heire to the Kingdome:
Which Edward did ataine by force, and partly by wisdome.
Second King by name, at Pomfort slaine, by the coward
Sir Pierce of Exton: who strake him downe, as a butcher
Striketh an ox, on his heade. Wo worth so shameful a monster.
This trecherus bludy Duke did bring eight tal men in harnesse,
Each man a bill in his hand, like thieues, to murder his Highnesse:
Who with a bill that he got by force, did manfuly withstand
Those Machauile hypocrites (for he kild foure men with his owne hand)
Till that he was struck downe by the Knight: who leapt in a chay-er
Like crauenus coward, to repose him selfe from a daunger.
| The Preservation of Henry VII | |